The pattern
130 BPM · 4/4 · 16 step
| Instrument | Beat 1 | Step 2 | Step 3 | Step 4 | Beat 2 | Step 6 | Step 7 | Step 8 | Beat 3 | Step 10 | Step 11 | Step 12 | Beat 4 | Step 14 | Step 15 | Step 16 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kick | hit | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest |
| 808 | hit | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest |
| Clap | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest |
| Closed hi-hat | hit | rest | hit | rest | hit | rest | hit | rest | hit | rest | hit | rest | hit | rest | hit | rest |
| Low tom | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest |
| High conga | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | hit |
How to play it and where it comes from
Rio's funk carioca: the tamborzão (late 1990s, DJ Luciano Oliveira on a Roland R-8) is built on 3-3-2 groups with an almost clave-like feel, a legacy of Miami bass and the Afro-Brazilian atabaque. The syncopated kick/808 (1, the "a" of 1, the "and" of 2, the "and" of 3, the "and" of 4) is the center, with clap on 2 and 4 and sampled congas/toms filling in. Didactic notation: real backing tracks vary. Classic tempo ~130 (volt mix 125–128); from the mid-2010s "funk 150" speeds up to ~150 with sparser tracks. Variants: chopped vocal samples, beatbox, kick that becomes a sixteenth-note roll at the end of the phrase.